Swim Class

Tristan rose early on his six month birthday to take his first swimming class. The water was a little colder than the instructor usually likes it to be for her "Shrimp", but Tristan and his classmate were real troopers.



There was a lot of kicking, splashing and exagerated bubble blowing (by daddy). Tristan also got a couple of good chuckles seeing his dad in a bathing cap. It was a great way to start the day...and to celebrate his half-year birthday.

And yes, Tristan does have his own membership card for the Y:

Teething

Tristan's first two teeth have come in (front/bottom), but he still seems to enjoy teething. Actually, these days it is more like gnawing. So far, the rails of his crib are safe...but the same can not be said for his high chair tray.

Tribute to the 9-11 Firefighters

Tristan got a new pair of PJ's in tribute to the firemen who lost their lives on 9-11.



(The pose is meant to be cute, not disrespectful)

First Lego's

Tom is so proud that Tristan enjoys his first set of Lego blocks. OK, each block only has one peg, but they are Lego's none the less.



Tristan's proud pop has a whole list of Lego projects lined up for his boy, from Thomas the Tank train sets to custom models build with the new Lego Digital Designer CAD system.

Tristan's First IM

So Tristan has had a lot of "first" recently, as most babies do...but today he had first 21st Century "first"...he sent an instant message to his daddy.



[11:21] jickib29: hi dadee
[11:22] jickib29: i'm awake and drooling all over momee
[11:22] tompayne36: awake already!
[11:22] jickib29: slept for an hour and a half
[11:22] jickib29: good nap
[11:22] tompayne36: no drooling on the keyboard
[11:22] jickib29: mjfrf=]grsxZO$b6
[11:22] tompayne36: nice
[11:23] jickib29: z tg5v
[11:23] tompayne36: your first IM!
[11:23] jickib29: ```````;1`
[11:23] jickib29: e54dwde['
[11:23] jickib29: eweww/ws
[11:23] tompayne36: I am so proud of you!
[11:23] jickib29: .xc5xz z
[11:23] jickib29: q`qz sqzSyuy
[11:23] jickib29: z
[11:24] jickib29: zzzm,/0yewqar 5
[11:24] jickib29: ,loll.p;8im o980pp

The first part is his mommy pretending to be Tristan, then he takes over. OK, granted, it doesn't make any particular sense...but it remains adorable.

Lobster Boy

Jen and Tom found a cute "Lobster" Halloween costume for Tristan. The bad news is that he is already too big for the outfit, so it had to go back to Baby's 'R Us. The good news is that we got some pictures first...

Hacked!

Arghhh... We got haCkED! Here is a snapshot of what this site looked like last night. Hopefully all is well now. Sorry if anyone was offended.



Spending the night fixing it....